The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-03
THESE LITTLE SHOES.
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE knights of Labor seem to be suffering
from the disease that afflicted Artemus Words
regiment. Too many knights want to be briga-
der generals. -Philadelphia Times.
THE Terre Haute law closing saloons at IL p.
NJ. seems hard. but it Is no more than proper
that the Terre Hauters should at some time in
their lives become acquainted with their own
key hoes-Louisvilie Courer-Journ
HITTING the nail on the head" is an old syno-
Dym for doing just the right thing. But Pro-
hibitionsts who seek to promote their cause by
introducing the Democratic party 60 power hit
the nail on the thumb.-Springfeld Union.
THE effort of the Democratic organs to break
the force of General Jackson's extraordinary
speech at Macon by calling him crank proves
little too much. 1t merely brings into larger
prominence the fact that jackson was not
much of crank but that President Cleveland
appointed him Minister to Observation-Disclosures
Press.
THE laboring people not Anarchists, and
they cannot be used by Anarchists. The people
of Chicago never were afraid of the few outlaws
in their midst, and they have been guilty of no
unseemlY clamor against the convicted An
archists They have not been disturbed by vap-
i'd threats by the mouthipgs Of cranks.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
ANYBODY who has paid any attention to the
writings speeches of actual Anarchists knows
that their principle" is nothing in the world
but hatred and envy of those who richer
than themselves. Wretcnes like Spies and Most
are actuated by this sentiment alone, for their
own part and appeal to this sentiment alone in
others.-New York Times.
The situation in Ohio must be desperate in
deed for the Democrats. They have ordered
the brigaders to the front. An ovation to jeff
Powell flag Presidents Cleveland would be
pleased to lend them a flag for the occasion.
This suggestion is offered without thought of
remuneration Minneapolis Tribune
OUR Canadian neiehbors cannot rid them
selves of the idea that the Fisheries Commits
sion will give them another Halifax award.
They are industrIously engaged in gathering sta
tistics regarding the fish caught along shore.
though they expected to swindle the Yankees
into paying a second exorbitant sum for privi-
leges within the three-mile limit, for which our
fishermen have never asked.-Boston Journal.
ONE of the remark able condolences of the
times is the fact that some of the grand lodges
of Masons. the Knights of Labor and the Cath
Ollie Church have all issued orders against liquor
sellers. almost at the same slime. These organ
izations, each powerful in its own way, and each
claiming to work for the good of mankind. have
arrived at the same conclusion as to one thing
and that is, that the selling Of intoxcants is an
eyil.-Natioual Republican.
IT will be loss to national idealism if Presi-
dent Grevy be forced out of Office in conse
quence of the scandalous charges against his
ambitious and mercenary son-inlaw; for while
the Republic has had in Theirs and Gambetta
leaders instinct with creative genius. the third
President offers the noblest type of unselfsh
citizenship. 1t will be misfortune to the a.
ton if he be forced into retirement through these
deplorable family scandals.-New York Trib-
THE picture drawn by Gov Gordon of Geor-
gia, of jeff Daviss fororn condition is ridicu-
lousy overdrawn. "A broken down old man,
with scarcely place to lay his head" is part
of the Governors description. The splendid
estate in Mississippi which Davis accepted from
a crazed old woman a couple of years ago. leav-
ing her two nieces and a nephew in utter pov-
erty, is place enough to lay his head, though
under the circumstances it would not be strange
if the head lay uneasy" there.-Brooklyn
Standard Union.
PROF. FELIX ADLERs proposition that ''soci-
ETY. has right to quarantine the Anarchists.
just the same as the bearers OF cholera germs"
is n sound and practical one but his logic loses
force and precision when he argues that they
shonld not be hung for murder, because that
will tend TO make heroes of them in the eyes Of
their followers. There is far danger of
causing them to assume the heroic aspect by
permitting them to escape the penalty of the
law when they undertake to enforce their in
famous theories oy means of riot and bloodshed.
So Louis Globe-Democrat
HOWEVER the executive of Illinois might be
moved TO mercy by sympathy, or a sense of the
beneficence of mercy, it cannot permit fear of
consequences to swerve the DEGREES of justice.
All denunciation of the law, and threats of
venge upon its executors will but serve to
harden the Governors heart to any appeals for
clemency. He is sworn to maintain tho
supremacy of the law at all hazards, and all idea
that he can be swerved from his line of duty by
tho mouthings of foreign Anarchists like Most,
or the fierce utterances of local groups" betravs
a most woeful misjudgment of the man.-Chi-